digital-libraries

Title:  Digital Libraries: Definitions, Issues and Challenges

Autor: Gary Cleveland

Identifier: http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop8/udtop8.htm

Date: March, 1998.

Description: this article presents the digital library, with its issues and its challenges, by comparing with the traditional libraries. It enumerates the characteristics of digital libraries

Subject: issues, challenges, virtual libraries, electronic libraries, libraries without walls, architecture

Format: html

Type: text

Language: english

Rights: © 1995-2000 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Relation: 

Arms, W.Y. (1995). Key concepts in the architecture of the digital library. D-lib Magazine, July, 1995. URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07arms.html

Bush, V., "As We May Think", Atlantic Monthly, July 1945, pp. 101-108.

Chapman, S. and Kenny, A.R. (1996). Digital conversion of research library materials: a case for full informational capture. D-lib Magazine, October, 1996. URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october96/cornell/10chapman.html

            Miller, J.S. (1996). W3C and digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine, November, 1996.
Publisher: http://www.ifla.org/

            Extract of the article:
"The idea of easy, finger-tip access to information-what we conceptualize as digital libraries today-began with Vannenar Bush's Memex machine (Bush, 1945) and has continued to evolve with each advance in information technology. With the arrival of computers, the concept centered on large bibliographic databases, the now familiar online retrieval and public access systems that are part of any contemporary library. When computers were connected into large networks forming the Internet, the concept evolved again, and research turned to creating libraries of digital information that could be accessed by anyone from anywhere in the world. Phrases like "virtual library," "electronic library," "library without walls" and, most recently, "digital library," all have been used interchangeably to describe this broad concept. "

• Title: Digital Libraries and User Needs: Negotiating the Future
• Autor: Coleman,Anita; Sumner,Tamara
• Identifier: http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v05/i03/editorial/
• Description: this article presents the evolution of digital libraries and the user needs which result from its evolution, according to three different approaches.
• Subject: user needs; prospectives; educational institutions;  born-digital information; user-centered design; participatory design; shared governance models
• Format: html
• Type: text
• Language: english
• Relation:
  Amari, S-i., Beltrame, F., et al. (2002) "Neuroinformatics: The integration of shared databases and tools towards integrative neuroscience". Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 1(2): 117-128

Bishop, A. P., Mehra, B., et al. (2003) "Participatory Action Research and Digital Libraries: Reframing Evaluation". Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation, edited by A. P. Bishop, N. A. Van House and B. Buttenfield (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 161-189

Greenbaum, J. and Kyung, M. (1991) Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)

Lewis, C. H. and Rieman, J. (1993) Task-centered User Interface Design: A Practical Guide http://hcibib.org/tcuid/index.html

Meister, D. (1985) Behavioral Analysis and Measurement Methods (New York: Wiley)

Rosson, M. B. and Carroll, J. (2002) Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction (San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann)

Sachs, J. D. (2004) "Sustainable Development: Editorial". Science, 304 (5671): 649

• Publisher: http://jodi.tamu.edu/
  
  
  Extract of the article:
  
  "The purpose of this special issue is to consider the spectrum of approaches being used by different libraries and service providers as they negotiate the future with their user communities. At a time when a digital information future is increasingly certain, this timely and much needed collection of articles explores, documents and reflects on the theories, practices, and experiments focusing on digital library users. "

• Title:  Automated Digital Libraries: how Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship?
  
• Autor: William Y. Arms 
  
• Identifier: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/arms/07arms.html
  
• Date: July/August 2000
  
• Description: this article presents advantages of automated digital libraries, concerning the research of information.
  
• Subject: automated digital libraries, advantage, cost, research, librarianship
  
• Format: html
  
• Type: text
  
• Language: English
  
• Rights: © 2000 William Y. Arms
  
• Relation: 
  
  - J. C. R. Licklider, Libraries of the Future. MIT Press, 1965.
  -  Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian Feldman (Editor), Computers and Thought. MIT Press, 1963.
  · Gerald Salton and Michael J. McGill. Introduction to modern information retrieval. McGraw-Hill, 1983.
  · Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. Proceedings of WWW7, Australia, 1998.
  ·  Wactlar, H., Christel, M., Gong, Y., Hauptmann, A. Lessons Learned from the Creation and Deployment of a Terabyte Digital Video Library. IEEE Computer 32(2): 66-73, 1999.

• Publisher: http://www.dlib.org/
  
  
  Abstract of the article:
  
  "Libraries are expensive and research libraries are particularly expensive. Even in the United States, few people can afford good access to primary scientific, medical, legal and scholarly information. Members of major universities have excellent library services. So do people who work in teaching hospitals, or for drug companies or rich law firms. Others have access to information only through the tedious, inefficient system of interlibrary lending. In less affluent countries the situation is worse; even the best universities cannot afford good libraries. Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation?"

• Library: A place in which literary and artistic materials, such as books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, prints, records, and tapes, are kept for reading, reference, or lending. 
  http://www.thefreedictionary.com/library

•   Digital library: Information system in which all resources of information are available under a traitable shape by computer and in which all offices of acquisition, storage, preservation, research, access and visualization use digital techniques

•   Digitization: conversion of analog information in any form (text, photographs, voice…) to digital form with suitable electronic devices (such as a scanner or specialized computer chips) so that the information can be processed, stored, and transmitted through digital circuits, equipment and networks.

•  Dematerialization: To deprive of or lose apparent physical substance; make or become immaterial.

•   Internet: The Internet is a worldwide system of computer networks (a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer)

•  To index: an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed

• Cataloging: The process of creating a record for an information source that may contain descriptive information and/or index terms.

•   Edition: a printed version of a given work that may be distinguished from other versions either by its published format (e.g. paperback edition, popular edition, abridged edition).